Book Club: Sadako Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
OnIn this month’s bonus episode, Langdon joins us to talk about Koji Suzuki’s Ring.
Tag: Japan
Review: The Nelories, or, The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard***
OnI talk to a good number of people who are into indie* music, and am always thrilled to find others who are fans of the more obscure bands I enjoy. There is one band, however, that I find to be less well-known…
Review: POLYSICS – 15th P
OnThe first, and most important thing you need to know about POLYSICS new album, 15th P, is that it features a cover of the classic DEVO B-side, “Mecha-Mania Boy” with vocals by DEVO’s own Mark Mothersbaugh. Based on this alone, it is…
Review: AX: Alternative Manga
OnWhen one mentions “manga,” to the average passer-by, one is usually met with the question, “what is that?” Mention manga to the average American manga reader, you’ll likely hear mention of such series as Soul Eater or Negima!, or of such high-profile…
Review: POLYSICS – Seattle, Studio Seven, 9/21/03
OnIt’s still POLYSICS week at Kittysneezes! To celebrate my trip to NYC to see POLYSICS on their last tour with Kayo, here’s a review of one of their concerts, back from 2003 — posted as written 7 years ago. Mang, that’s a…
Comic Review: The Push Man
On[Purchase Book] Yoshihiro Tatsumi is one of those cartoonists who is more influential than they are really known — at least in America. He was one of the first creators of (and the coiner of the term) gekiga, or alternative manga, using…
Manga review: Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo’s Song
On[Purchase Book] Osamu Tezuka truly is the god of manga. The attention to detail is simply staggering, and he produced his hundreds of the thousands of pages of manga over the decades the long, hard way. Sometimes, when reading his work, one…